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...corner with a stove sitting on it. Pots and pans stack up under chairs that line the walls and on the shelves of a bureau that also holds a tiny color television. There is a small refrigerator, the padding in its door showing through the rust. Clothes lines crisscross beneath the plasterboard ceiling. "I'd like a new house," he says. "That's my dream. That my family can live in a better home...
...look like much. Situated on a dead-end mere blocks from the colorful spires of Red Square and the dazzling neon of Tverskaya shopping district, it's just another of the city's many renovation projects surrounded by barbed wire and covered with a thick layer of dust. But beneath rickety scaffolding, the building's towering columns and gilded fixtures tell a different story. Under renovation since 2005, this is the Bolshoi Theater, home of the fabled 231-year-old Bolshoi Ballet Company. From his cozy office in the Bolshoi's labyrinthine headquarters across the square, artistic director Alexei Ratmansky...
...most religiously extreme families force girls that young to wear hejab (as the veil is known in Iran), and I looked at my friend inquiringly. The little girl insists on wearing it, my friend told me; she thinks it makes her look like her mommy. The girl beamed beneath her scarf, imagining herself quite grown-up. You can't really explain to a five-year-old that mommy wears hejab because it is mandatory, and that if given the choice, she would prefer otherwise...
...that she wanted to die. When they made it back to the koban, the woman broke free and ran toward the rail crossing. With a train less than a quarter-mile away, Miyamoto leapt onto the tracks and tried to pull the suicidal woman into an emergency safety area beneath the platform. She wouldn't move. Miyamoto waved at the incoming train repeatedly, but it was an express traveling at nearly 40 mph - he never had a chance. Though he managed to protect the woman, who survived with a broken pelvis, Miyamoto was struck full by the train. He suffered...
...government: full speed ahead from the pages of The New York Times to Cambridge, Massachusetts! And all the better if the new president has a gimmick, for these are the sort of kids who were utterly delighted when former University President Lawrence H. Summers would autograph their dollar bills beneath his signature as Secretary of the Treasury. Thank goodness Harvard doesn’t work like that, at least not all the time. It remains an academic institution, however inconvenient or archaic that may seem to these “disappointed” few. No institution (particularly an academic...